3 3 8 DireEtions forgetting and keeping out all fear of damnation : and all fear that drives the foul fromGod, and all fear of men (whiLh is meant in Rev. 21.8. Where the fear and un- believers are condemned ; that is, thofe that feat men more then God ) And that i lohn 4.17,18, Speaketh ofa Tormenting Fear,which is it that I am perfwading you from, and confifteth in Terrers of foul upon an apprehenfion that God will con- demn you ; But it fpeaketh not ofa filial fear, nor of a fear kft we fhould by forfaking God, or by Ijelding toTemptation lofe-the Crown ofLife, and fo perifb as long as this is not a tormenting fear, but a cautelous, preferving, preventing fear. Be- tides the Text plainly faith, It ù that me may have boidnefi in theday of it:ckensent, that love eaflethout tbù f ear : And at that dayof Judgement, Love will have more fullyovercome it. It is a great miftake to think that Filial Foar is onely the fear of temporal chaflifement,and that all Fear ofHell is flavitb. Even Filial Fear is a fr ofHell : But with this difference. A fon (if he know hinifelf to be a Son) bath fuch a perfwafion of his Fathers Love to him,that he knows he will not cart him off,except he fhould be fo vile as to renouncehis Father; which he is moderately fear- ful or careful left by Temptation he thould be drawn todo, but not ditiruflfullv fearful!, as knowing the helps and mercies of his Father. But a flavifh Fear is, when a man having no apprehenfions of Gods love, or willingnefs to (hew him mercy, cloth look that God fhould deal with him as a flave , and de- firov him when ever he doth amifs. It is this flavifb Tormenting fear which I fpend all this writing nainft. Eut yet a great deal even of this flavifb fear may
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